Historical information: These materials were produced by students of the field methods course in the Department of Linguistics at UC Berkeley between September 2005 and May 2006. The course was taught by Professor Andrew Garrett and the language consultants were Grace Dick, Leona Dick, Meg McDonald, Morris Jack, Joyce Glazier, Elaine Lundy, Edith McCann, and Madeline Stevens. All other listed contributors were students in the course.

Scope and content: This collection consists of audio recordings that derive from fieldwork in Bridgeport and Colevile, CA. The contents of the recordings include lexical elicitation, grammatical elicitation, and some texts.

Historical information: In the mid-2000s, Andrew Garrett (UC Berkeley) and Susan Gehr (Karuk tribal linguist, archivist, and language program coordinator) worked together to create an online searchable version of William Bright and Gehr's "Karuk dictionary" (2005), in a website hosted by the UC Berkeley Linguistics Department. In 2008 and 2009, Gehr and Karuk language program coordinator Ruth Rouvier invited Garrett to work with Karuk community members on data management and archiving for language documentation. From this emerged a Karuk language documentation project involving collaboration among Berkeley linguists, the Karuk Tribe, and Karuk tribal members. The project was led at Berkeley by Line Mikkelsen and Andrew Garrett (and initially Alice Gaby, who subsequently left Berkeley); other participants included Karuk first-language speakers Lucille Albers, Sonny Davis, Vina Smith, and Charlie Thom Sr.; second-language speakers, learners, and teachers Tamara Alexander, LuLu Alexander, Crystal Richardson, and Florrine Super; and UC Berkeley graduate students Erik Hans Maier and Clare Sandy. Active documentation began in 2010 and continued through at least 2017. (Elders Thom, Albers, and Smith passed away in 2013, 2014, and 2015, respectively.) Among other research activities, this project involved extensive work with texts, including the creation of digital versions of legacy texts (e.g. all texts published in William Bright's 1957 "The Karok language"), transcribing new texts, and analyzing texts. The text analysis also involved preparation of a treebank of syntactically parsed Karuk sentences.

Scope and content: The collection consists mainly of field recordings made by Berkeley faculty and students with Karuk elders as well as younger language learners and second-language speakers. Most of the items in the collection are organized as follows: recordings made on a single research trip (on one or more days) are bundled together as digital assets of a single item. One item in the collection contains grant applications (e.g. for a National Science Foundation grant); another item contains handouts and posters from conference presentations by Berkeley project participants. The field recordings include a wide range of texts, text types, and methodologies (elicitation, free texts, responses to stimuli, discussion of legacy recordings); they cover a variety of linguistic topics (phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics).

Description: This item includes published research papers as well as handouts and posters related to the Karuk project by researchers associated with the project. Conferences represented include the International Conference on Language Documentation and Conservation and annual meetings of the Society for the Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas.

Description: This contains documents pertaining to a grant application to the National Science Foundation, which was funded as award number 1065620, "Karuk [kyh] and Yurok [yur] syntax and text documentation", principal investigators Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen; and other grant applications.

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett and Line Mikkelsen. Grant applications, 2017-04.002, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24280

Digital assets in this Item (not available for download):Garrett_Mikkelsen-National_Science_Foundation_2010.pdf (242603 bytes)

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Vina Smith, and Franklin Thom. Karuk field recordings, August 2011, 2017-04.009, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24347

Description: Elicitation on topics including: use of Karuk 1st-person prefixes 'ni-' and 'na-' in expression of personal states; monomorphemic words in isolation and in sentences for accent contrasts; verbs of position; possessives; how to say 'where is X?'; non-geminating consonants; locatives; relative clauses.

Description: Elicitation of topics including: borrowings from English; description of Story Builder cards; description of landscape scenes from a calendar; instrumental constructions; instrument nouns; various vocabulary; narration of "The Three Bears" using Carolyn "Lyn" Risling's "The Three Bears" coloring book (Published 1984 by ITEP, reprinted 2013). Also includes listening and translating of legacy recordings.

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Line Mikkelsen, and Vina Smith. Karuk field recordings, December 2013, 2017-04.025, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24366

Description: Elicitation on topics including: questions, description of Topological Relations Picture Series, attributive modification. Also includes two conversations in Karuk/English and a personal anecdote in Karuk.

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Line Mikkelsen, Vina Smith, and Tammy Stark. Karuk field recordings, January 2011: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.007.002, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24344

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Preferred citation: Sonny Davis, Andrew Garrett, Line Mikkelsen, and Vina Smith. Karuk field recordings, January 2012, 2017-04.012.002, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24351

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Description: Elicitation on topics including: NP coordination w. 'xákaan'; verbalizer -hi and agreement; Future '-avish' with various particles. Also includes relistening/translation of earlier recorded texts.

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Line Mikkelsen, Vina Smith, and Florrine Super. Karuk field recordings, July 2012, 2017-04.015, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24354

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Line Mikkelsen, and Vina Smith. Karuk field recordings, June 2011: Sensitive recordings, 2017-04.008.002, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24346

Description: Elicitation on topics including: Karuk verb 'musahi' (to look like); verbs with complement clauses; compounds; unstable accent words; use of Karuk suffixes '-ar' and '-kurih'; use of Karuk word 'vaa'; secondary predicates; description of line drawings (created by Alfred Hayes as elicitation prompts); animal vocabulary; verbs with various person prefixes and '-eesh' for accent; semantics/truth conditions of '-ar'; Frog Story; various vocabulary. Also includes a wealth of anecdotes and narratives told by Charlie Thom Sr, as well as relistening and translation of a Chester Pepper recording.

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Robert Manuel, Line Mikkelsen, Vina Smith, and Florrine Super. Karuk field recordings, March 2014, 2017-04.028, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24369

Preferred citation: Andrew Garrett, Erik Hans Maier, Robert Manuel, Line Mikkelsen, and Vina Smith. Karuk field recordings, March 2015, 2017-04.033, Survey of California and Other Indian Languages, University of California, Berkeley, http://cla.berkeley.edu/item/24374

Description: Elicitation of topics including: 'îin' marking; nonverbal predication; body part vocabulary; numbers 1-10; everyday words and phrases; family vocabulary (relations), bird names and vocabulary. Also includes a conversation and relistening to an earlier recorded conversation.